wallpaper support in idesk

J. Bakshi [j.bakshi at unlimitedmail.org]

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:32:02 +0530

Hello,

Is there anyone using icewm+idesk combination ? I have seen that
wallpaper support is already there in idesk; more over changing the wall
paper from a source folder is also possible. But is it all theory ? I
can't get the wallpaper working in box. I am using idesk 0.7.5-4.

> Hello,
>
> Is there anyone using icewm+idesk combination ? I have seen that
> wallpaper support is already there in idesk; more over changing the
> wall paper from a source folder is also possible. But is it all theory
> ? I can't get the wallpaper working in box. I am using idesk 0.7.5-4.
>
> Any success from anyone ?

It works fine for me; I described the setup in the article that I wrote
(http://linuxgazette.net/160/okopnik.html). You know, the one that I
pointed you to at the time. Have you read it yet? Perhaps you should.

> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 09:32:02PM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is there anyone using icewm+idesk combination ? I have seen that
> > wallpaper support is already there in idesk; more over changing the
> > wall paper from a source folder is also possible. But is it all
> > theory ? I can't get the wallpaper working in box. I am using
> > idesk 0.7.5-4.
> >
> > Any success from anyone ?
>
> It works fine for me; I described the setup in the article that I
> wrote (http://linuxgazette.net/160/okopnik.html). You know, the one
> that I pointed you to at the time. Have you read it yet? Perhaps you
> should.
>
>

Hello Ben,

Yes, I read it. But for me it is not working unfortunately. idesk always reports

>> Any debug process to find out the problem ?
>
> I don't know of any. I've just tried using "strace", but it shows idesk
> reading the config file, then generating the 'not found' message - no
> other info. Seems to me that idesk is broken in this regard: it works
> fine when I use it my preferred way (i.e., a random image from a
> directory), but doesn't work with a specified single image.

As a temporary workaround, have several copies of the image with
different filenames and have it randomly select from them.

> > > Don't know what prevents the wallpaper !!!
> >
> > Given the above, I don't know what would prevent it either; it all
> > looks pretty reasonable.
>
> Thanks for your time.
> Any debug process to find out the problem ?

I don't know of any. I've just tried using "strace", but it shows idesk
reading the config file, then generating the 'not found' message - no
other info. Seems to me that idesk is broken in this regard: it works
fine when I use it my preferred way (i.e., a random image from a
directory), but doesn't work with a specified single image.

> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Ben Okopnik<ben@linuxgazette.net> wrote:
>
> As a temporary workaround, have several copies of the image with
> different filenames and have it randomly select from them.
>

> 2009/7/29 Steve Brown <steve.stevebrown@gmail.com>:
> > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Ben Okopnik<ben@linuxgazette.net> wrote:
> >
> > As a temporary workaround, have several copies of the image with
> > different filenames and have it randomly select from them.
>
> or just one image in the folder? i guess that would work.